Julio Castro Méndez Explained
Julio Castro Méndez is a Venezuelan doctor who specializes in infectious diseases and internal medicine.
Career
Castro has served as an infectious medicine doctor at the Metropolitan Polyclinic, director of the organization Doctors for Health, member of the Venezuelan Society of Infectious Diseases and professor at the Institute of Tropical Medicine at the Central University of Venezuela.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Since 2019, Julio Castro is part of Plan País program under National Assembly President Juan Guaidó.[5]
On 15 March 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic of that year and after two cases were confirmed in Venezuela, Juan Guaidó announced the creation of a Commission of Health Experts to deal with the pandemic, a commission composed of Doctors and academic experts in different specialties, including Julio Castro, who heads the commission, Gustavo Villasmil, from the Venezuelan Society of Internal Medicine, and Edgar Capriles, specialist in Health Economics, among others.[6] [7]
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Notes and References
- News: Sleinan. Julett Pineda. En seis meses han fallecido dos personas con hepatitis A en Caracas. 17 March 2020. Efecto Cocuyo. 28 July 2018.
- News: Alegan que apagones y falta de agua agrava situación de hospitales en Venezuela. 17 March 2020. AFP. El Universal. 29 November 2018.
- News: Lozano. Daniel. Otra dramática cara de la crisis venezolana: las epidemias se expanden. 17 March 2020. La Nación.
- Web site: Julio Castro Méndez, médico en Venezuela: "La mortalidad infantil ha aumentado en los últimos cinco años un 120% en Venezuela". Onda Cero. 17 March 2020.
- News: Julio Castro desde el Plan País: Venezuela desfigura el combate a la malaria en el continente. 17 March 2020. El Nacional. 5 December 2019.
- News: Juan Guaidó anunció la creación de una Comisión de Expertos de la Salud del Gobierno Legítimo para hacer frente al coronavirus en Venezuela. 17 March 2020. Infobae. 15 March 2020.
- News: Este es el orden del día de este martes. EVTV Miami. 17 March 2020.
